Explains how key decisions were made, why deadlocks and compromises occurred, and where SALT has brought the superpowers after a decade of bargaining in addition to looking closely at the progress made by the Carter administration

Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II

Politics & Social Sciences

Talbott, Strobe

Politics & Government

Harpercollins

Offers a behind the scenes look at United States-Soviet relations between 1989 and 1991

At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

History

BESCHLOSS, Michael R.

Russia

Little,Brown & Co

This is a story that you did not read in the newspapers. At the Highest Levels reveals a hitherto secret dimension of the most momentous event of our time: the end of the Cold War. Beschloss and Talbott show us the vital transactions that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev made and concealed from the world: Bush's pledge not to press Gorbachev for Baltic independence, the manipulations for German unification, how the Soviet Union joined the Gulf War Coalition, Bush's private warnings to Gorbachev that he was about to be overthrown, and the U.S. president's secret efforts to prevent the breakup of the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in power.

During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge of helping to steer post-Soviet Russia-with its thousands of nuclear weapons and seething ethnic tensions-between the Scylla of a communist restoration and the Charybdis of anarchy fell to the former governor of a poor, landlocked Southern state who had won national election by focusing on domestic issues. No one could have predicted that by the end of Bill Clinton’s second term he would meet with his Kremlin counterparts more often than had all of his predecessors from Harry Truman to George Bush combined, or that his presidency and his legacy would be so determined by his need to be his own Russia hand. With Bill Clinton at every step was Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state whose expertise was the former Soviet Union. Talbott was Clinton’s old friend, one of his most trusted advisers, a frequent envoy on the most sensitive of diplomatic missions and, as this book shows, a sharp-eyed observer. The Russia Hand is without question among the most candid, intimate and illuminating foreign-policy memoirs ever written in the long history of such books. It offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of policymaking and diplomacy alike. With the scope of nearly a decade, it reveals the hidden play of personalities and the closed-door meetings that shaped the most crucial events of our time, from NATO expansion, missile defense and the Balkan wars to coping with Russia’s near-meltdown in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The book is dominated by two gifted, charismatic and flawed men, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, who quickly formed one of the most intense and consequential bonds in the annals of statecraft. It also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after September 11, 2001. The Russia Hand is the first great memoir about war and peace in the post-cold war world.

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy

Americas

Random House]

A revelatory inside account of the Reagan administration's handling--to stalemate--of nuclear arms control details personality clashes, power struggles, and the ideological gamesmanship that have precluded productive negotiations

DEADLY GAMBITS

KNOPF

Combines an account of the career of veteran arms-control negotiator, Paul Nitze, with an account of arms-control diplomacy during Nitze's career and the negotiations that continue

The Master of the Game

Examines the development of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States and discusses the Russian view of the Reagan administration

The Russians & Reagan

Vintage

Deadly Gambits

September 11 marked the beginning of a new era--an age of terror in which counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national governments and international institutions. How we proceed in this new war depends in large measure on the answer to a prior question: what exactly happened here and why? In The Age of Terror, eight leading historians and policymakers address this question and examine the considerations and objectives of policy decisions in post-September 11 America. Co-published with the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

The Age Of Terror: America And The World After September 11

Chanda, Nayan

World

Basic Books

A Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration draws on personal and historical sources to chronicle humanity's efforts to secure protection and profitability through the establishment of empires, the waging of wars, and the forging of modern global alliances, in an account that seeks to expose damages inflicted by the Bush administration. 50,000 first printing.

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

Simon&Schuster

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Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II

At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy

DEADLY GAMBITS

The Master of the Game

The Russians & Reagan

Deadly Gambits

The Age Of Terror: America And The World After September 11

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation